For anyone who’s ever been bruised by romance, All the Real Girls will have the bittersweet flavor of a forgotten crush, a messy breakup, a lovers’ spat. Writer-director David Gordon Green’s beautiful, lyrical film – which traces the doomed affair between a 20-something lady’s man (Paul Schneider) and a younger girl (a riveting Zooey Deschanel), captures the sort of emotions we only experience a handful of times in our lives, but which register so strongly they can come flooding back with little more than an old song and a familiar fragrance – or a heartfelt movie such as this.
